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From Time magazine: When Sebastien Boucher stopped at the U.S.-Canadian border, agents who inspected his laptop said they found files containing child pornography. But when they tried to examine the images after his arrest, authorities were stymied by a password-protected encryption program. Now Boucher is caught in a cyber-age quandary: The government wants him to …
From the Globe and Mail: The digital divide between rich and poor countries is narrowing as mobile phones and Internet use become more available, but the developing world still lags far behind, a United Nations report said on Wednesday. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said mobile phone subscribers have almost tripled …
From USA Today (with a great picture): Technology that doctors expect will help detect precancerous cells faster and less painfully also could someday take cameras to parts of the body where no camera has gone before. Cameras the size of pills could “put eyes on tools” for laparoscopic surgery, snake inside a bile duct or …
From ABC News: When the Internet suddenly collapsed early last Wednesday across the Middle East and into India, it provided a stark reminder of how the Net’s virtual spaces can still be held hostage to real-world events. Almost simultaneously, two separate undersea fiber-optic cables connecting Europe with Egypt, and eventually with the Middle East and …
From ReportOnBusiness.com: Microsoft Corp. revealed plans for a surprise $44.6-billion (U.S.) cash and stock takeover offer for struggling Internet search pioneer Yahoo! Inc., in a move that would not only dramatically increase its share of the global Web search business but would have serious implications for top dog Google Inc. The world’s largest software company …
From ComputerWorld: LAN technology recently passed a milestone — it’s been around for 30 years, some of them tumultuous. But while the LAN seems ubiquitous now, there are those who think its future may be more troubled than its past. “Comparing the present environment to our original vision, the temptation is huge to say that …
From USA Today: After ordering pizza for the gang on Super Bowl Sunday, many folks will be able to go online and track the progress of their pies. Domino’s, the pizza-delivery kingpin, on Wednesday will unveil a technology, Pizza Tracker, that lets customers literally track their pizza from the moment they place the order until …
From CNN: The lab rat of the future may have no whiskers and no tail — and might not even be a rat at all. With a European ban looming on animal testing for cosmetics, companies are giving a hard look at high-tech alternatives like the small, rectangular glass chip professor Jonathan Dordick holds up …
From ARN: When visiting Niagara Falls, chances are you’re too enthralled by the beauty and power of the cataract to think of anything else. Until you cross the U.S./Canada border — then you have to think about the interrogation from customs agents and the video cameras locked in on your vehicle. Or maybe you’re thinking …
From the Globe and Mail: Trying to convince the public that downloading a song is akin to stealing a chocolate bar hasn’t helped the music industry curb piracy. Now it wants Internet service providers to act as content gatekeepers and to start unplugging customers suspected of swapping copyrighted music files.